Licentiate courses in Rural Education of the Area of Natural Sciences: analysis of the production in national journals

Abstract

This paper investigates how licentiate courses in Rural Education articulate with the area of the Sciences of Nature, from the productions socialized in Brazil, from the Teaching area of CAPES, between the years of 2013 to 2017, with classification A1, A2 and B1. The sources of the research were 14 articles, among 4189 articles published in 25 journals. The research is qualitative, of the bibliographic type, and the technique of analysis was the Textual Discourse Analysis. The results were synthesized in three categories interrelated: a) Curriculums and Cultures in Rural Education in Natural Sciences; b) Teacher Training in Rural Education in Natural Sciences; c) Science - Technology – Society and Social and Environmental Implications. We highlight the presence of three central, inseparable elements: the rural populations, contexts and intentionalities. So, teachers and students, who live and work in different rural contexts, too experience and problematize the intentionalities in Education, the Natural Sciences and society. They find in Rural Education a place of discussion about the lived contradictions and the construction of other possible ways of society.

Keywords

• rural education
• natural sciences
• licentiate course
• bibliographic production
• teacher education